[DeTomaso] Any interest in dual (no booster) brake MCconversion?
JDeRyke at aol.com
JDeRyke at aol.com
Tue Apr 3 13:34:40 EDT 2012
In a message dated 4/2/12 2:17:11 PM, kenn_green at yahoo.com writes:
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> I also don't think that all the braking is from the front piston. I
> think the front and rear brake circuts are fed by separate pistons so that the
> failure of one doesn't lose all of the braking.
>
Right. In '65, almost all U.S cars had single circuit master cylinders.
This was changed via a federal law for 1966 to dual cylinders with no direct
hydraulic interconnections, so a minor crash that maybe ripped one hose
couldn't take out all the brakes. FWIW- J DeRyke
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